Bryon
Bryon was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,424 among boys’ names; 14,737 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,700 Americans named Bryon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 38 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bryon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bryon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bryon is “a male given name from Irish, a nonstandard spelling of Brian.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bryon?
#5,424 among boys’ names, 2025
Bryon fell from #2,725 in 2015 to #5,424 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.0 to 10.0 per million.
451 babies in 1970, the peak
Bryon peaked in 1970, when 451 boys were given it, #382 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,424 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,695 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,277 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,726 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,801 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,036 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 26 | #4,016 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,452 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,134 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,697 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,725 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 46 | #2,627 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,193 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,008 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,757 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,147 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,169 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,164 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,039 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 78 | #1,772 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 90 | #1,555 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 81 | #1,605 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 80 | #1,576 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 97 | #1,354 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,367 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 102 | #1,268 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,093 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,062 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 133 | #977 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 130 | #972 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 148 | #900 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 147 | #895 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 143 | #895 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 183 | #769 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 213 | #689 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 205 | #706 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 215 | #678 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 273 | #558 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 267 | #556 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 242 | #569 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 306 | #496 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 287 | #500 | 0.16 |
| 1983 | 313 | #473 | 0.17 |
| 1982 | 312 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 271 | #513 | 0.15 |
| 1980 | 338 | #458 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 281 | #496 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 349 | #421 | 0.21 |
| 1977 | 353 | #421 | 0.21 |
| 1976 | 347 | #416 | 0.22 |
| 1975 | 355 | #406 | 0.23 |
| 1974 | 369 | #404 | 0.23 |
| 1973 | 407 | #381 | 0.26 |
| 1972 | 422 | #384 | 0.26 |
| 1971 | 433 | #386 | 0.24 |
| 1970 | 451 | #382 | 0.24 |
| 1969 | 405 | #393 | 0.23 |
| 1968 | 401 | #389 | 0.23 |
| 1967 | 342 | #414 | 0.20 |
| 1966 | 337 | #411 | 0.19 |
| 1965 | 328 | #425 | 0.18 |
| 1964 | 345 | #430 | 0.17 |
| 1963 | 325 | #441 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 313 | #448 | 0.15 |
| 1961 | 305 | #464 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 314 | #454 | 0.15 |
| 1959 | 304 | #458 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 298 | #455 | 0.14 |
| 1957 | 270 | #471 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 151 | #618 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 97 | #739 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 94 | #738 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 67 | #878 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 67 | #851 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 48 | #1,022 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 50 | #978 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,097 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 35 | #1,218 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 32 | #1,298 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,560 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,585 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,334 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,774 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 16 | #1,807 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,005 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,405 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,305 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,220 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,214 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,474 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,552 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,125 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,635 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,014 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,754 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,494 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,790 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,672 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,570 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,229 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,909 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,757 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,215 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,855 | 0.01 |
| 1897 | 7 | #857 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bryon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bryon has been given almost only to boys: 17 girls in 107 years of records.
Girls and boys named Bryon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bryon, and how old are they?
12,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 14,737 Americans ever recorded as Bryon. The median Bryon alive today is 50 years old; half are between 38 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 11,087 people named Bryon (32 women and girls, 11,055 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,137 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 50 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,310 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 362 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Bryon born?
The states with the most babies named Bryon are California, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,407 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 1,038 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 713 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 702 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 700 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 585 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 485 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 421 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Wisconsin | 355 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 334 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Bryon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bryon is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bryon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,673,914 babies since 1880, Bryon is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 2,250 babies (<1%), again the fourth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bryon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bryon and names like it
- Compare Bryon and BrianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sBryon peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bryon since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Bryon.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Bryon alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with BMost given first.